Form submission data looks like being encrypted despite being not

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Asked on January 05, 2017 at 08:41 AM

Hello,

My form is not set to encrypt however it is sending my email notices encrypted. When I try to preview the form it is prefilled with encrypted data this just started happening last night - any insight as to what is going on the form is this form

What is strange is the submission page do not require any private key to open it. If they were really encrypted, you should have seen a window as you can see below:

I have suspected that some of the spammers have found a way to send those text to you. Maybe they are some kind of virus as you have already mentioned also. So that, I recommend you to add some security fields to your form such as the following:

Moreover, you can use an email verified. With that, it would be an additional step for them. First, they'll need to use a valid email address, then make an actual verification of it. Here are the email validation/verified widgets that you can use: